[DCRM-L] Reconsidering digraphs

[Alexandra Mason]

Although I am now retired I feel that long experience entitles me to 
express my complete agreement with Manon Theroux and Juliet McLaren. As 
Juliet writes "the more conventional alterations one makes to the title 
page, the more difficult identification of a particular work or edition 
becomes".

At 17:56 2005/02/22, you wrote:



>         We long ago agreed, as I recall, that rules should not be 
> dictated by what any particular system was or was not able to do.  Some 
> systems will treat a digraph search and a separate letter search with 
> equal efficiency.  But collecting a very large search result is not very 
> useful if one cannot identify what one has retrieved.  The aim for 
> searching is surely to identify particular works, and the more 
> conventional alterations one makes to the title page, the more difficult 
> identification of a particular work or edition becomes.
>
>         I agree with Manon Theroux's comment that any rules which provide 
> less adequate transcription than AACR2  violate our effort to provide as 
> much transcription as possible for rare materials.
>
>         Juliet McLarlen
>
>